Bishop E G, Hailey B J, Anderson H N
Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Augusta.
J Human Stress. 1987 Fall;13(3):121-7. doi: 10.1080/0097840X.1987.9936804.
The agreement of classifications yielded from two instruments used to assess children's Type A-Type B behavior, the Matthews Youth Test for Health (MYTH) and Hunter-Wolf (HWolf), was evaluated with a sample of rural children from the southern United States. Fifth grade children (N = 276) served as subjects. MYTH and HWolf scores were found to be only weakly correlated and the agreement of Type A-Type B classifications occurred at a rate only slightly above chance. To assess the psychometric properties of the instruments, both were subjected to factor analysis and reliability/internal consistency estimates were obtained and compared with previous results. A factor structure remarkably similar to that of previous reports was found for the MYTH but not the HWolf. The results closely parallel those of another recent report and provide further support for the recommendation that these instruments should not be considered interchangeable measures of Type A behavior and that when multiple measures cannot be employed for research, the investigator should use the MYTH. Caution is indicated in interpreting scores of either measure, however, since neither has yet been shown to relate to later development of coronary heart disease.
利用用于评估儿童A - B型行为的两种工具——马修斯青少年健康测试（MYTH）和亨特 - 沃尔夫测试（HWolf），对来自美国南部农村地区的儿童样本进行分类一致性评估。五年级学生（N = 276）作为研究对象。结果发现，MYTH和HWolf得分仅呈微弱相关，A - B型分类的一致性发生率仅略高于随机水平。为评估这两种工具的心理测量特性，对二者均进行了因子分析，并获得了信度/内部一致性估计值，并与先前结果进行了比较。发现MYTH的因子结构与先前报告的非常相似，但HWolf并非如此。这些结果与最近的另一份报告非常相似，并进一步支持了以下建议：不应将这些工具视为A行为的可互换测量方法，并且当无法采用多种测量方法进行研究时，研究者应使用MYTH。然而，在解释任何一种测量方法的分数时都应谨慎，因为尚未证明二者与冠心病的后期发展有关。
